龍舒增廣淨土文 8.5

8.5

予同郡望江陳企嘗妄殺人，後見鬼現，企畏懼，急念阿彌陀佛，鬼不敢近。企念佛不已，鬼遂不現。後常念佛，臨終坐化。後半年附本家孫女名妙光云：「我因念阿彌陀佛，已生極樂世界。」舉動言語一如平生，親戚相知皆來看。至兩三日，家人云：「惜乎！爾在生時，不曾傳得喜神供養。」企遂現，儼然如平生，唯面帶少顏，蓋西方長生不老。其頭如佛之螺髻，蓋成佛漸也。望江士人周憲叔為予言之。

Chen Qi of Wangjiang in my home commandery once killed a person wrongfully. Later, seeing a ghost appear, Qi was terrified and urgently recited Amitābha Buddha, and the ghost did not dare approach. Qi recited the Buddha's name incessantly, and the ghost thereupon disappeared. Thereafter he constantly recited the Buddha's name, and at the end of life passed away seated. Half a year later, he possessed his family's granddaughter named Miaoguang, saying: "Because of reciting Amitābha Buddha, I have already been born in Sukhāvatī." His movements and speech were just like in life, and relatives and acquaintances all came to see. After two or three days, his family said: "What a pity! While you were alive, no likeness of you was painted for us to make offerings to." Qi then manifested, looking dignified just as in life, only his face appeared youthful, for in the West there is long life without aging. His head had spiral curls like a Buddha, which is the beginning of becoming a Buddha. The scholar Zhou Xianshu of Wangjiang recounted this to me.